Administrator’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Preface Introducing FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited
- Chapter 1 Installing the FileMaker Web Server Connector
- Chapter 2 Administering the Web Server Connector
- Chapter 3 Publishing your database on the Web
- Types of web publishing
- Using the FileMakerPro Web Companion
- Creating a custom home page
- Creating a custom home page for Instant Web Publishing
- Creating a custom web site using a database layout
- Web Companion support for Internet mediatypes
- Monitoring your site
- Exporting data to a static HTML page
- Testing your site without a networkconnection
- Opening password-protected databasesremotely
- Chapter 4 Custom web publishing using CDML
- About the CDML examples
- General steps for custom web publishing using CDML
- About CDML format files
- Generating FileMakerPro CGI requests using CDML
- Using the CDML Tool and templates
- Modified CDML tags
- About the CDML Reference database
- Creating error messages
- Using an encoding parameter with a CDML replacement tag
- Planning your web site
- Chapter 5 Using FileMakerPro XML to deliver your data
- About the XML examples
- General process for custom web publishing using XML
- Generating an XML document
- Using the FMPDSORESULT grammar
- Using the FileMakerPro Extended XMLgrammars
- About UTF-8 encoded data
- Generating FileMakerPro CGI requests for an XML document
- Using style sheets with your XMLdocument
- Comparing CSS, XSLT, and JavaScript
- Looking at the XML Inventory example
- Chapter 6 Using Java and JDBC to deliver your data
- About the JDBC examples
- About JDBC
- Using the FileMaker JDBC Driver
- SQL supported by the FileMaker JDBCDriver
- FileMakerPro support for Unicodecharacters
- About the FileMaker JDBC Driver interfaces and extensions
- Example 1: Looking at the FileMakerPro Explorer application
- Example 2: Creating the JBuilder Inventoryapplication
- Example 3: Creating the Visual Cafe Inventory application
- Using the FileMaker Java classes
- Appendix A Valid names used in CGI requests for FileMaker XML data
- Generating a –find, –findall, or –findany request
- Generating a –view request
- Generating a –new request
- Generating an –edit request
- Generating a –delete request
- Generating a –dbnames request
- Generating a –layoutnames request
- Generating a –scriptnames request
- Generating a –dbopen request
- Generating a –dbclose request
- Specifying parameters for the request
- –db (Database)
- –lay (Layout)
- –format (Format)
- –recid (Record ID)
- –modid (Modification ID)
- –lop (Logical operator)
- –op (Comparison operator)
- –max (Maximum records)
- –skip (Skip records)
- –sortfield (Sort field)
- –sortorder (Sort order)
- –script (Script)
- –script.prefind (Script before Find)
- –script.presort (Script before Sort)
- –styletype (Style type)
- –stylehref (Style href)
- –password (Database password)
- field name (Name of specific field)
- Appendix B FileMaker Pro values for error codes
- Appendix C Enabling the FileMaker Pro Web Companion in MacOS X
- Index
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Contents of the FileMaker Pro 5.5
Unlimited CDs
FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited consists of two CDs: one for the
FileMaker Pro software and related files, and one for custom web
publishing and the Web Server Connector.
Contents of the FileMaker Pro CD
The FileMaker Pro CD provides the installer for the FileMaker Pro 5.5
Unlimited software. For installation instructions and for information
on the minimum hardware and software requirements for using
FileMaker Pro 5.5, see the printed FileMaker Pro 5.5 Getting Started
Guide or the FMP 5.5 Getting Started.pdf document on this CD.
The installation code that comes with FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited
is the key to unlimited web user access to the Web Companion.
FileMaker on the Web links
Double-click FileMaker on the Web to open the
Go_FileMaker_Unlimited.html page in your browser. Then, click
the link to go to the web site. There you will find product information
and support, as well as helpful links to other resources.
Contents of the FMWSC and Tools CD
The following tables describe the contents of the FMWSC and
Tools CD.
CDML folder
Custom Workgroup Portal folder
Electronic Documentation folder
The Electronic Documentation folder contains a PDF (Portable
Document Format) version of the FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited
Administrator’s Guide, which you can print from Adobe Acrobat
Reader.
FileMaker JDBC Driver folder
Contents of the
CDML folder Description
CDML Examples Folder containing three folders of example files:
guest_book folder, employee_database folder, and
shopping _cart folder
For information about these examples, see chapter 4,
“Custom web publishing using CDML.”
CDML Templates Folder containing nine CDML format files for different
types of interaction with a database
Web Tools Folder containing the CDML Reference.fp5 and
CDML Tool.fp5 databases and the CDML Templates
folder
Contents of the
Custom Workgroup
Portal folder Description
Asset Management.fp5 Sample FileMaker Pro database
Personnel Records.fp5 Sample FileMaker Pro database
customwebportal.mth Custom Workgroup Protal example file
collage3.jpg Graphic file
logo.gif Graphic file
Contents of the
FileMaker JDBC
Driver folder Description
Java Class Library Folder containing Java Documentation and Examples
JDBC Documentation Folder containing HTML based documentation for
JDBC
JDBC Examples Folder containing examples for FileMaker Explorer,
JBuilder 3.0 Professional, and Visual Cafe 4.0 Expert
Edition
Contents of the
CDML folder Description